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Bringing morality back in: accounting as moral interlocutor in reflective equilibrium processes

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The situations in which accounting is practiced raise moral concerns about customer and employee safety, community welfare, environmental sustainability, and human rights. Traditional accounting practices, such as budgets and performance measurement systems, have been widely regarded as ‘crowding out morality’ by objectifying the people affected by a firm's actions. In two North American utilities, we observed a stepwise structured process of moral reflection (which we identify as an insta...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1016/j.aos.2024.101570

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Institution:
University of Oxford
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SSD
Department:
Saïd Business School
Oxford college:
Hertford College
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-3611-968X
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
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Elsevier
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Accounting, Organizations and Society More from this journal
Volume:
113
Article number:
101570
Publication date:
2024-09-10
Acceptance date:
2024-07-30
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1873-6289
ISSN:
0361-3682
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English
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2019568
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pubs:2019568
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2024-08-01

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